Meet the amazing animals that make North America a continent of surprises! Join a wolf pack, come face to face with alligators, and battle rattlesnakes with brave ground squirrels in the wild, wild, West. Includes Bonus Program: Cain the Coyote as well as Interactive Wild America Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

Dive into fun and explore the world's oceans from surface to sea floor. Come face-to-face with great whales, friendly dolphins, scary sharks, and all the ocean's amazing treasures. Includes bonus program: Adventures in Asia as well as Interactive Undersea Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

C'mon mate, and travel to the land ''down under'', where you'll meet leaping kangaroos, paddling platypuses, and cuddly koalas. You won't believe the amazing variety of animals that make this island world their home. Includes Bonus Program: Island Magic as well as Interactive Down Under Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

There's no place like home, especially one you build yourself! Come see the construction sites where beavers, bears, and birds build their amazing animal abodes using their own ''built-in'' tools. Includes Bonus Program: Secret Weapons as well as Interactive Wild Construction Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

Get ready for chills and thrills at the ends of the earth with playful penguins, slippery seals, and hungry humpback whales. Pal around with a polar bear and her cuddly cubs, toothy walruses, and killer whales that rule in the cool. Includes Bonus Program: Cool Cats as well as Interactive Polar Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

This farmyard safari proves that tame animals have really rowdy relatives in the wild. A farmyard family reunion includes everything from horses and cows to warthogs and zebras! Includes Bonus Program: Curious Canines as well as Interactive Rowdy Ranch Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

Travel back to the days of raging raptors and the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex, when dinosaurs ruled the earth! Plus, see some of the world's creepiest creatures, such as spiders, ants, dung beetles, and more. Includes Bonus Program: I Love Dinos as well as Interactive Prehistoric Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

Come along on a wild African safari and experience the amazing ways that animals like cheetahs, crocodiles, rhinos and elephants survive. Experience life in a lion pride, what it's like to be a chimp, and much more. Includes Bonus Program: Hanging with the Primates as well as Interactive African Safari Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

Take a totally tropical trip to the rain forest and meet spotted jaguars, colorful poison-arrow frogs, slow-moving sloths, and loud-mouthed howler monkeysall captured by the world's finest filmmakers in the wildest place in the world. Includes Bonus Program: Far Out Families as well as Interactive Rain Forest Creature Feature with fun facts, quizzes, sound clips, and maps.

This basic beginner's field guide to the larger plants in North America is part of the growing National Geographic Pocket Guide series. Spot-on descriptive information and key facts about trees and shrubs are conveyed in a handy, colorful, easy-to-reference volume. More robust than any other beginning field guides on the market, this book includes selected photography and newly commissioned art and graphics to help identify each species of tree. Handy, authoritative, and easy to read, this pocket guides are useful in the field or as an in-home reference for beginners, nature lovers, and tree-climbers everywhere.

Essential, comprehensive, and easy to use, the revised edition of National Geographic Complete Birds of North America is an astonishing resource that covers every bird species found in North America as well as all the seasonal visitors. Entries are organized by family group, the taxonomic organization newly updated to match current American Ornithologists' Union guidelines. Within a family, each separate bird entry has dozens of tips and illustrations on species' gender, age group, behavior, habitat, nesting and feeding habits, and migration routes. Providing full information on more than 1,000 species, this book features hundreds of range and migration maps, cutting-edge information on identification, and more than 4,000 annotated illustrations by expert bird artists.